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MOUNTAIN HEALTH EXECUTIVE Director Martha Halnon has been among those spearheading the Bristol medical center’s path forward as a Federally Qualified Health Center. Halnon joined Mountain Health in 2012 and the center became an FQHC in 2013. Independent photo/Trent Campbell
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BRISTOL &mdash; At a time of rapid change in health care throughout the state and nation, Mountain Health Center is thriving.</p>
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In just under three years, the Bristol-based doctors&rsquo; office has doubled its employees, increased its total patient load by close to 1,000, and doubled the number of office visits it can handle yearly.</p>
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Mountain Health&rsquo;s expansion goes hand in hand with its designation in November 2013 as a Federally Qualified Health Center, or FQHC.</p>
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Journey with me now to the mysterious world of healthcare &mdash; where nothing costs what they say it does, and no one can figure out what it really costs, anyway.</p>
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Where you&rsquo;re never quite sure of the differences between your premium, deductible, co-pay, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.</p>
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Where your health history is now available through an online patient portal &mdash; but you can&rsquo;t remember the password. Where the doctor will see you in a few minutes, but you&rsquo;re just as likely to end up seeing a physician assistant.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.addisonindependent.com/201505gregory-dennis-no-exit-healthcare-maze" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Opinionhealth care reformThu, 07 May 2015 04:33:34 +0000John McCright30179 at http://www.addisonindependent.comShap Smith: Health care reforms a top priorityhttp://www.addisonindependent.com/201503smith-health-care-reforms-top-priority
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MIDDLEBURY &mdash; Education finance reform and the estimated $112 million revenue shortfall continue to get the most attention in Montpelier, but Vermont House Speaker Shap Smith said he and his colleagues are committed to passing health care reforms aimed at closing the cost-shift in Medicaid funding and recruiting more primary care physicians to the state.</p>
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Smith was speaking on health care issues at Porter Medical Center&rsquo;s annual meeting on Monday at Middlebury College&rsquo;s McCardell Bicentennial Hall.</p>
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In an interview with Lawrence Miller last week that ran in Thursday&rsquo;s Addison Independent that explored Miller&rsquo;s new position as the governor&rsquo;s senior advisor and Chief of Health Care Reform, there were two take-home comments that can&rsquo;t be emphasized enough: that the state won&rsquo;t push forward with a single payer system that puts the state&rsquo;s economy in jeopardy, while also saying the state would not go back to the status quo that saw health care costs escalate annually beyond the point of sustainability.</p>
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MIDDLEBURY &mdash; Green Mountain Care Board member Dr. Allan Ramsay urged Addison County&rsquo;s medical community to be patient as the state transitions to a new health care system that he acknowledged will be fraught with change and challenges.</p>
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&ldquo;One of the things I&rsquo;ve learned intensely over the past two years is that change is very hard,&rdquo; Ramsay said at Porter Medical Center&rsquo;s annual meeting last week. &ldquo;It is very hard to change the system.&rdquo;</p>
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CLARK HINSDALE, CENTER, and Jim Morse listen as Gov. Peter Shumlin makes a point at the Legislative Lunch at the American Legion in Middlebury Monday.
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MIDDLEBURY &mdash; Gov. Peter Shumlin on Monday warned about the potential legal consequences of overhauling the state&rsquo;s education finance system and expressed his priorities for a single-payer health care system that could be in place as soon as 2017.</p>
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Shumlin made his comments during an interview at the <em>Addison Independent</em>. The governor also appeared on Monday at a legislative luncheon at the Middlebury Legion (see related story on Page 1A) at which he was challenged on his support for the Addison-Rutland Natural Gas Project.</p>
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WHITING &mdash; With 2017 fast approaching, Addison County residents are pressing lawmakers to estimate the cost of Vermont&rsquo;s proposed conversion to a single-payer health care system. Act 48, passed by the Legislature in 2011, called for a detailed plan for a single-payer health system by 2017, and a financing scheme was due last year.</p>
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What&rsquo;s the true nature of our expensive healthcare system? Is it an overregulated mess that&rsquo;s crying out for free-market forces to improve quality and lower costs, by expanding competition among providers?</p>
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Or is it an under-regulated mess that&rsquo;s crying out for a single-payer system to improve quality and lower costs, by eliminating the expensive, greedy middlemen known as insurance companies?</p>
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MONTPELIER (AP) &mdash; Vermont became the first state in the country last week to let people without health insurance see how much they could have to pay to get coverage through the federal health overhaul beginning next year.</p>
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The state on April 1 released the proposed rates that would be charged for a variety of coverage levels through the state&rsquo;s health insurance marketplace. The rates range from an average high of about $1,700 a month for a family to an average of $745 for catastrophic coverage &mdash; only available to people under age 30 &mdash; for a family.</p>
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Republican legislators have taken the Shumlin administration to task for failing to articulate how the state&rsquo;s health care reform law would be financed, as required by law. The administration contends it has &ldquo;substantially&rdquo; complied, and labels the partisan display a &ldquo;stunt.&rdquo;</p>
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LINCOLN &mdash; Rep. Mike Fisher, a Lincoln Democrat, this Wednesday will lead a community discussion on current and national efforts on Health Care Reform and the next steps.</p>
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The discussion will take place on Oct. 3 beginning at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Library.</p>
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Lincolnhealth carehealth care reformMon, 01 Oct 2012 19:51:10 +0000admin13449 at http://www.addisonindependent.comLegislative Report: Two (personal) reasons for health reformhttp://www.addisonindependent.com/201208legislative-report-two-personal-reasons-health-reform
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Health reform continues to be debated on national and state political stages. Sometimes the power of personal stories is lost in these debates. As we head toward another winter of debating health care in Montpelier I wanted to share a couple of my own experiences and ask you to share yours with me. The names in the stories below are not fictional because they all helped save my life. In an effort to be polite I have refrained from naming those who have not assisted in this effort.</p>
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MIDDLEBURY &mdash; The Senate Health and Welfare Committee this week will begin reviewing a House-passed measure to establish a federally mandated &ldquo;health benefits exchange&rdquo; that would, according to proponents, make health insurance more accessible and affordable in Vermont.</p>
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MIDDLEBURY &mdash; Addison County&rsquo;s House delegation on Thursday voted along party lines on ground-breaking health care reform legislation that will now move on to the state Senate.</p>
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The Vermont House voted 92-49 in favor of H.202, legislation that establishes a road map for a single-payer health care system for the state.</p>
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